journalist Michael D. Shear

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to attend the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in the coming weeks, an administration official said on Tuesday. In a statement, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the president was looking forward to attending the ...

During an impromptu 30-minute interview with The New York Times at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the president did not demand an end to the Russia investigations swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times that there has been “no collusion” discovered by the inquiry. “It makes the ...

WASHINGTON — Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged. Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nation's airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump broke with leading Republicans on Tuesday and voiced support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers and has seen his campaign's prospects imperiled. In his first extensive remarks ...

WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday delivered to Congress a long list of hard-line immigration measures that President Trump is demanding in exchange for any deal to protect the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, imperiling a fledgling bipartisan push to reach a legislative ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting their citizens into the country. The new order is ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an “amnesty-first approach” and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months. As early ...

WASHINGTON — The White House changed its story on Tuesday about how it handled allegations of spousal abuse against Rob Porter, the staff secretary who resigned in disgrace last week, conceding that the F.B.I. told White House career officials last summer about problems in Mr. Porter's background check. But members of President Trump's team said top advisers in the West Wing were kept in the dark. The White House revised its version of events after ...

By Michael D. Shear, New York Times News Service. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he would have rushed in to save the students and teachers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School from a gunman with an assault weapon, even if he was unarmed at the time of the massacre. Speaking to a meeting of the country's governors at the White House, Trump conceded that "you don't know until you test it." But he said he believed he ...

Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Background reading: • The father of a student killed last week at a Florida high school pressed President Trump to act, asking, “How many children ... You can say, “O.K., Google, play New York Times” to listen to that day's episode of “The Daily.” Michael D. Shear contributed reporting. “The Daily” is produced by Theo Balcomb, Annie Brown, Paige Cowett, Lynsea Garrison, Andy Mills, Rachel ...

WASHINGTON — Senator Marco Rubio and a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association were repeatedly heckled at a nationally televised forum on Wednesday night in Florida after they refused to back new gun control measures. The spokeswoman for the N.R.A., Dana Loesch, offering the group's first public comments after a shooting last week at a Florida high school, strongly defended the gun advocacy group's positions in front of students and teachers from ...

WASHINGTON — Politicians and other well-wishers began gathering at the United States Capitol Wednesday morning to pay tribute to the Rev. Billy Graham, whose body will arrive for a daylong memorial ahead of his funeral in North Carolina on Friday. President Trump was scheduled to participate in the service in honor of Rev. Graham, whose global ministry included close relationships with presidents since Harry Truman. His legacy includes an outsize influence ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so-called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas. A day earlier, Mr. Trump signaled that he was open to supporting legislation that ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined an unusual White House request that it immediately decide whether the Trump administration can shut down a program that shields some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation. The move meant that the immigrants, often called “Dreamers,” could remain in legal limbo for many months unless Congress acts to make their status permanent. The Supreme Court's decision not to hear the ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department informed the White House this month that there were substantial issues related to Jared Kushner that still needed to be investigated and would significantly delay a recommendation on whether he should receive a permanent security clearance, according to two people briefed on the matter. The White House was not told what the issues were involving Mr. Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. But the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted Monday that he would have rushed in to save the students and teachers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School from a gunman with an assault weapon, even if he was unarmed at the time of the massacre. Speaking to a meeting of the country's governors at the White House, Mr. Trump conceded that “you don't know until you test it.” But he said he believed he would have exhibited bravery “even if I didn't have a ...

WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been stripped of his top-secret security clearance after months of delays in completing his background check, and will now be limited in his ability to view highly classified information, a White House official and another person familiar with Mr. Kushner's situation said on Tuesday. Mr. Kushner's clearance was reduced to the level of secret and his official portfolio inside the West Wing, ...